CLEVELAND, Ohio – A major traveling exhibit about Picasso is on still on hold at the Cleveland Museum of Art, but another big one is coming about Giacometti, along with other shows about depictions of motherhood by contemporary artists and about the work of 15 groundbreaking contemporary black photographers.
An announcement by the museum describes eight exhibitions or gallery rotations currently on show, as well as another 14 planned until summer 2022, five of which have not yet been announced.
The museum’s forward-looking view of its exhibition schedule shows that the once conservative institution is shifting towards a stronger emphasis on modern and contemporary art, as well as the work of African American artists.
At the same time, the museum is planning exhibitions to highlight its traditional strengths in Asian art and European medieval art.
“Picasso and Paper,” a blockbuster that should have opened last May and was later postponed to September, has been postponed indefinitely because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The exhibition is planned with more than 300 works dealing with Pablo Picasso’s innovative use of paper. She is the subject of discussions with the Musée National Picasso-Paris about when it might visit Cleveland in the next few years. The exhibition opened at the Royal Academy of Arts in London last winter but did not travel.
Despite Picasso’s raid, the museum is planning another big one with its newly announced exhibition on Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti, known for his sculptures of thin human figures dotted with tortured surfaces that express fear and doubt about the human condition Commitment to mid-century modernism.
In collaboration with the Fondation Giacometti, Paris, “Alberto Giacometti: On the way to the ultimate figure” will be on view from March 12 to June 12, 2022. As the Cleveland Museum’s largest solo exhibition about a 20th century European modernist since Major Exhibits on Picasso in 1992 and 2001, it will be a rare occurrence.
The exhibition will examine 60 works by Giacometti, focusing on the years from 1945 until his death in 1966. The exhibition is also shown at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. the Nelson-Atkins Art Museum in Kansas City; and the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.
Other previously unannounced exhibitions at the museum include:
“New Stories, New Future,” on view June 26 through September 12 at the Transformer Station Gallery in Ohio City. The show will focus on how three contemporary artists – Johnny Coleman von Oberlin; Antwoine Washington of Cleveland; and Kambui Olujimi from Queens, New York, explore time and historical revisionism.
“Picturing Motherhood Now,” which runs from October 16 to March 13, 2022, will examine works created over the past two decades by artists exploring new images of motherhood, while the museum will examine “changing definitions of.” Family and Gender, History and History “names the afterlife of slavery, the legacy of migration and the preservation of matrilineal indigenous cultures. ”
“Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus,” scheduled for February 20 to June 26, 2022, will feature “landmark works by major black artists” as well as works by emerging and mid-career black artists, all from the museum come from permanent collection.
“The new black avant-garde: photography between art and fashion”, which can be seen from May 8 to September 11, 2022, will interview 15 aspiring photographers whose works, according to the museum, open up “conversations about the representation of the black body and” Black Lives to challenge the idea that blackness is homogeneous.
The exhibitions already announced in the museum’s press release include:
“Medieval Treasures from Münster Cathedral”, which will open on May 22nd and extend through August 14th, will highlight relics from St. Paul’s Cathedral in Münster, which include the famous Guelph treasure of holy Christian objects from Cleveland. Re-illuminate the museum.
“Private life: home and family in the art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900.” From July 1 to September 19, the exhibition shows works by Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Maurice Denis and Félix Vallotton, members of a group of post-impressionist artists, dedicated to intimate scenes of home, family and children.
“Collecting Dreams: Odilon Redon”, which can be seen from September 19 to January 23, 2022, takes the viewer into the dream worlds that a leading French symbolist of the late 19th century created in paintings, prints and drawings, mainly are owned by the museum.
“Krishna Reveal: The Journey to Cambodia’s Sacred Mountain”, which runs from November 14, 2021 to January 30, 2022, will combine the museum’s newly restored sculpture “Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan” with nine related masterpieces of the sculpture loan from Cambodia and France, originally from Phnom Da, one of the earliest great Hindu sites in Southeast Asia
In addition to the sculptures, the exhibition will explore Phnom Da through immersive digital displays. The exhibition is a joint project of the museum and the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts of the Government of the Kingdom of Cambodia.
